Take a moment to think about how many old or damaged computer motherboards you have tossed away over the years. Sure we try to repurpose everything we can, but reclaiming electronic components from ...

This is the continuation of a series of posts where I create a schematic and PCB in various EDA tools. Already, we’ve looked at Eagle CAD, KiCad, and took a walk down memory lane with one of the first ...

PCB Design Best Practices: Six things to consider when making PCB component choices based on part footprints. All the examples in this article are developed using the NI Multisim design environment, ...

MiciMike Nest Mini is a drop-in PCB replacement for the "Google Nest Mini" (Google's second-generation smart speaker with a barrel connector charging port), but based on ESP32 and XMOS ...

Dramatic enhancements in IC functionality over the past decade have brought tremendous advantages to PCB designers. Today's denser, faster devices pack multiple high-performance functions into smaller ...

A comprehensive parts inventory management system. This application helps you organize, track, and manage electronic components, BOMs (Bill of Materials), and stock levels with both a GUI and CLI ...

Surface mount assembly robots are some amazing machines. The pick and place heads in the fastest, highest volume SMT machines travel so fast, that they are just short of supersonic. The placement ...

Everybody has a few loose PCB components lying around. Sometimes it's a few chip caps left over from a hand-rework task. Sometimes it's a tiny QFN or big old BGA. These days, every good engineer has a ...